Ok so I got sick thanks to Mom being contagious, and I had to work anyway, so I've been out of it the past 4 or 5 days but yesterday and today I've been in that horrid spot of where my body is all "don't get up, don't be vertical, don't do anything or else" and my brain is all "omg I am so bored" so today I have been sitting in bed with a pile of cheapass makeup on one side (cuz my good stuff was in its proper corner and being upright was dangerous) and a pack of makeup remover wipes on the other.
And I've just been watching makeup vids on my phone and practicing various looks. Here's the one I'm watching most recently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps7CCjpP1Pw I like it because it shows a little bit of everything. Contour and highlights, and she mentions products that I actually recognize. I even have some of them. I have a Tarte lipsurgence crayon and I do love it. It goes on smooth and soft and has a slight minty cooling feel and a slight minty scent. And it's so moisturizing! . But I recognize every product she showed in that vid.
I also watched videos that use liquid foundations to do their contouring. Whoa! But as scary as those vids look, that's also what I've had the best luck with. Somehow I don't have a good contour powder. All my bronzers are either too shimmery or too orange or both. Or they just look muddy no matter what. Probably too yellow. But I have a lot of foundations from the old marykay starter kit that absolutely don't match my skin tone. But somehow when used as stripes under my usual foundation...magic happens. I'm getting the hang of this! And I also found out that the ugly Presumptions R Us mineral sunscreen that turns me Casper-white can be blended to make the beige foundations light enough for me. This is great to help me use up my stash.
the last look I tried before the sun went down (I always do foundation in natural light) was that cheapass sunscreen (hiya Casper) then streaks of a dark bronze foundation (darker than what Beyonce would wear) on the sides of my nose and hollows of my cheeks. And then I painted on a beige foundation. About 2 shades darker than my natural skin tone. And something about this combination is just great. The sunscreen lightened everything up, the bronze turned into gentle shadowing, and the beige suddenly matched my neck. I must have done this blend like 8 times before I got it. But I got it! I have successfully recreated this blend twice. But ugh my face! Makeup wipes are great in a pinch, but nothing compares to a good scrubbing. I think I'm getting a pimple on my chin. Anyway now I'm practicing eye stuff, specifically the shape she does in that video. I've seen that eyeshadow shape in other videos and I just can't get it.I'm not lining it up right or something. Ugh. Physically I'm tired. Mentally I'm wide awake. I work again on Friday. Why do I only get sick on my days off?!?
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
i can haz junk?
And the womanlies started! Oh. Yay. >:(
So I am being a piggy mcbingey with a bigass bag of cheetos, a bag of assorted hershey minis halloween mix, and a package of triple double oreos. What diabetes risk? What family heritage. Factors? Pffft gimmie junk food!
And on top of that Mom has infected me with whatever was making heer hack her lungs out. I have the sore throat now. So I am in bed with my cat and water and fleece. This sucks. No cleaning. No drawing. Just headach and cramps and junk when I'm awake.
I did make that sephora order before I got sick. I got the Benefit Cosmetics Advent Calendar. Squeeee! It should arrive tomorrow. It's my first Advent calendar since elementary school. I've already tried a few Benefit brand products and liked most of them so here's a change to try a lot more. Cuz this advent calendar does have cheap chocolate, it has sample size makeup! Heehee! I haven't decided if I'll be good and open onne little door a day during december like intended. I was pretty bad about the childhood chocolate advent calendars too... altho once the plastic was removed the cheap chocolate didn't taste as good after a few days, so there was that.
And ofc I'm already looking at other fun gift sets that are really just gifts to myself cuz retail therapy and I'm selfish. Altho to be fair Mom is already saying she has too much stuff. I asked her if she wanted anything in this year's marykay order and she said "no way! I haven't even half used up what I already have!" And she doesn't wear makeup so she still has that huge Color Workshop makeup kit someone (her boyfriend?) got her years ago. And she still has the 5th Avenue set I got her last year. Oh! There's this old lipstick she loves loves loves and marykay stopped making it years ago. Called Cantaloupe and she loves the lack of shimmer and how it's a kind of slight orangey brown. She's had it for years. I think Fresh Sugar liptintedbalm Honey might be a colormatch. I have a tiny Honey from a giftset I bought myself last year to try the Fresh tinted balms (I love them... buttersoft and have spf) and I want to keep the Honey cuz I like it too but I can still use my mini to check the color matching. And then i'd just get her the fullsize tube. It's something I know she wants (that old lipstick is nearly gone) and it. Won't overload her cuz it's replacing. Something she uses and it. Has spf and ugh I wish she'd wear sunscreen more often! Dunno about anyone else... Christmas was never much about gifts in my family. But I want to get something for Mom cuz.... Mom! Oh and she still pays my bills.
But the best gift I could give her would be the gift of not worrying about me. So why am I still sitting on my ass about writing? I've got a better chance at success there then I'll ever get at Presumptions R Us. Bad me! Stop being lazy! Ow, my throat!
Oh hey, question for legal peeps... Samantha did something thaat has me confused and a bit worried. Remember how I said eventually I wanted to make string versions of some of her songs? Well a fan of hers uploaded her Live with Kelly performance to youtube. And when a few days ago I went to watch it again youtube had the video unavailabe due to copyright notices by Samantha. She got it taken down over copyright. Even tho it was her own live performance on a show she was guest on. And I'm confused if she can do that to my cover? Because when you perform on someone else's show.... doesn't the show own that copy of the performance?
am I making any sense?
So I am being a piggy mcbingey with a bigass bag of cheetos, a bag of assorted hershey minis halloween mix, and a package of triple double oreos. What diabetes risk? What family heritage. Factors? Pffft gimmie junk food!
And on top of that Mom has infected me with whatever was making heer hack her lungs out. I have the sore throat now. So I am in bed with my cat and water and fleece. This sucks. No cleaning. No drawing. Just headach and cramps and junk when I'm awake.
I did make that sephora order before I got sick. I got the Benefit Cosmetics Advent Calendar. Squeeee! It should arrive tomorrow. It's my first Advent calendar since elementary school. I've already tried a few Benefit brand products and liked most of them so here's a change to try a lot more. Cuz this advent calendar does have cheap chocolate, it has sample size makeup! Heehee! I haven't decided if I'll be good and open onne little door a day during december like intended. I was pretty bad about the childhood chocolate advent calendars too... altho once the plastic was removed the cheap chocolate didn't taste as good after a few days, so there was that.
And ofc I'm already looking at other fun gift sets that are really just gifts to myself cuz retail therapy and I'm selfish. Altho to be fair Mom is already saying she has too much stuff. I asked her if she wanted anything in this year's marykay order and she said "no way! I haven't even half used up what I already have!" And she doesn't wear makeup so she still has that huge Color Workshop makeup kit someone (her boyfriend?) got her years ago. And she still has the 5th Avenue set I got her last year. Oh! There's this old lipstick she loves loves loves and marykay stopped making it years ago. Called Cantaloupe and she loves the lack of shimmer and how it's a kind of slight orangey brown. She's had it for years. I think Fresh Sugar liptintedbalm Honey might be a colormatch. I have a tiny Honey from a giftset I bought myself last year to try the Fresh tinted balms (I love them... buttersoft and have spf) and I want to keep the Honey cuz I like it too but I can still use my mini to check the color matching. And then i'd just get her the fullsize tube. It's something I know she wants (that old lipstick is nearly gone) and it. Won't overload her cuz it's replacing. Something she uses and it. Has spf and ugh I wish she'd wear sunscreen more often! Dunno about anyone else... Christmas was never much about gifts in my family. But I want to get something for Mom cuz.... Mom! Oh and she still pays my bills.
But the best gift I could give her would be the gift of not worrying about me. So why am I still sitting on my ass about writing? I've got a better chance at success there then I'll ever get at Presumptions R Us. Bad me! Stop being lazy! Ow, my throat!
Oh hey, question for legal peeps... Samantha did something thaat has me confused and a bit worried. Remember how I said eventually I wanted to make string versions of some of her songs? Well a fan of hers uploaded her Live with Kelly performance to youtube. And when a few days ago I went to watch it again youtube had the video unavailabe due to copyright notices by Samantha. She got it taken down over copyright. Even tho it was her own live performance on a show she was guest on. And I'm confused if she can do that to my cover? Because when you perform on someone else's show.... doesn't the show own that copy of the performance?
am I making any sense?
Friday, October 18, 2013
when *Mich* says you havent posted in a while.....
....you know you really lost track of time!
Hi all! I'm good. Wasting time as usual. Did you know there were Sailor Moon musicals?! Sera Myu and they have some serious cuteness! I haavent seenn a whole musical yet... just fans posting their favorite scenes. Many are of Nao and Yuhka, who were a highly respected & beloved Uranus&Neptune duo. They played off each other really well. The fandom websites also claimed a song, Destined Couple, was specifically written for this duo. I've been reading through the old WikiMoon archives a lot. There was even a live-action Sailor Moon tv show! And ofc I totally missed out on the dolls and toys. I want a Uranus and Neptune doll pair waaaaa! *sigh*
Anyway as I was sying I have just been wasting time. When I'm not looking up Sailor Moon stuff I'm reading dumb celebrity gossip or window-shopping on sephora website. They're starting to post their xmas gift sets and omg want! Even tho I really don't need..... want!! So I'm telling myself that if I can do something productive during the day I can shop that night. Yeeaaa we'll see how that goes... but I did clear out my makeup corner again (which showed me yet. Again that I do nnot need any more) so maybe I'll make one order for like 1 large giftset (free shipping at $50 so I aim for smallest amount over 50) and I've already decided what the first order will be. But I better make it soon! Probably Sunday night. I work this weekend but not Monday so I can stay up Sunday if I'm not too tired. Shopping from my phone is problematic. I should probably get a new phone but I love this tiny phone so much! I'm totally ok with shopping from the computer... shopping from my phone would just mean I spend more money that I don't have! I need the restriction of an older phone!
Oh! There was also a work development... possibly. For the past 2 weeks now, coming up on week 3, I've been moved to the greeting cards section instead of makeup counter. I am totally ok with this. I don't have to deal with idiot customers as often, I don't have some damn sales goal, and the greeting cards are considered a speciality section so I'll also be harder to replace. The problems arehow there are no maps of the section, so I play it by eye, and when cards get mispalced (which happens every 10 minutes cuz customers are assholes) there is no locator program so I can't scan a card and get its location. So again w playing by eye. And if some dumbass fat coworker throws away a card's reorder slip? It's fecked. Yea... fatass coworker did the cards before she went on medical leave and I took over. Now that fatass is back she keeps sticking her nose into my aisle.
If all I do is cards now then yay because it's less stressful (when fatass stays out anyway) so here's hoping this works in my favor. Last week I finished the cards early and found something else to do... the scanouts on the candy aisle. Princess Nepotism "does" that aisle so ofc it was a mess. I hadn't done a scanout in years so I hope I did it right. Can't be worse that her though. She doesn't even scan the empty slot. She just puts the sticker on it. She doesn't pull her section of the stockroom either. I swear her daddy being a manager is the only reason she has that job.
There is also a chance that more favoritism, maybe even racism, is going on. Our longtime senoir makupgirl is black, and she's been there about as long as I have. Well there's a new girl, an older, very white girl, who seems to be on the fast track to take over that senior makeupgirl slot. This older white chick was never scheduled to be front register...and everyone starts up there. I did, the current senoir makeup did, even Princess Nepotism did. But not this chick. I thought maybe she was a transfer from another store and had the seniority to dodge up front.... but then I had to show her how to prinnt signs and price tags and even do her training videos. Basically she knew nothing about the work computer. So how could she be a transfer? So I need to keep an eye on that. If my friend is leaving of her own free will then that's one thing, but the younger black coworkers have indicated that that's not the case.
What the hell. Shit like this is not supposed to happen. But then people get harassed for being gay too so why am I surprised?
Hi all! I'm good. Wasting time as usual. Did you know there were Sailor Moon musicals?! Sera Myu and they have some serious cuteness! I haavent seenn a whole musical yet... just fans posting their favorite scenes. Many are of Nao and Yuhka, who were a highly respected & beloved Uranus&Neptune duo. They played off each other really well. The fandom websites also claimed a song, Destined Couple, was specifically written for this duo. I've been reading through the old WikiMoon archives a lot. There was even a live-action Sailor Moon tv show! And ofc I totally missed out on the dolls and toys. I want a Uranus and Neptune doll pair waaaaa! *sigh*
Anyway as I was sying I have just been wasting time. When I'm not looking up Sailor Moon stuff I'm reading dumb celebrity gossip or window-shopping on sephora website. They're starting to post their xmas gift sets and omg want! Even tho I really don't need..... want!! So I'm telling myself that if I can do something productive during the day I can shop that night. Yeeaaa we'll see how that goes... but I did clear out my makeup corner again (which showed me yet. Again that I do nnot need any more) so maybe I'll make one order for like 1 large giftset (free shipping at $50 so I aim for smallest amount over 50) and I've already decided what the first order will be. But I better make it soon! Probably Sunday night. I work this weekend but not Monday so I can stay up Sunday if I'm not too tired. Shopping from my phone is problematic. I should probably get a new phone but I love this tiny phone so much! I'm totally ok with shopping from the computer... shopping from my phone would just mean I spend more money that I don't have! I need the restriction of an older phone!
Oh! There was also a work development... possibly. For the past 2 weeks now, coming up on week 3, I've been moved to the greeting cards section instead of makeup counter. I am totally ok with this. I don't have to deal with idiot customers as often, I don't have some damn sales goal, and the greeting cards are considered a speciality section so I'll also be harder to replace. The problems arehow there are no maps of the section, so I play it by eye, and when cards get mispalced (which happens every 10 minutes cuz customers are assholes) there is no locator program so I can't scan a card and get its location. So again w playing by eye. And if some dumbass fat coworker throws away a card's reorder slip? It's fecked. Yea... fatass coworker did the cards before she went on medical leave and I took over. Now that fatass is back she keeps sticking her nose into my aisle.
If all I do is cards now then yay because it's less stressful (when fatass stays out anyway) so here's hoping this works in my favor. Last week I finished the cards early and found something else to do... the scanouts on the candy aisle. Princess Nepotism "does" that aisle so ofc it was a mess. I hadn't done a scanout in years so I hope I did it right. Can't be worse that her though. She doesn't even scan the empty slot. She just puts the sticker on it. She doesn't pull her section of the stockroom either. I swear her daddy being a manager is the only reason she has that job.
There is also a chance that more favoritism, maybe even racism, is going on. Our longtime senoir makupgirl is black, and she's been there about as long as I have. Well there's a new girl, an older, very white girl, who seems to be on the fast track to take over that senior makeupgirl slot. This older white chick was never scheduled to be front register...and everyone starts up there. I did, the current senoir makeup did, even Princess Nepotism did. But not this chick. I thought maybe she was a transfer from another store and had the seniority to dodge up front.... but then I had to show her how to prinnt signs and price tags and even do her training videos. Basically she knew nothing about the work computer. So how could she be a transfer? So I need to keep an eye on that. If my friend is leaving of her own free will then that's one thing, but the younger black coworkers have indicated that that's not the case.
What the hell. Shit like this is not supposed to happen. But then people get harassed for being gay too so why am I surprised?
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